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> JED mobile app
not familiar with the app, but this is the "acknowledgements" section of their download page:
>Acknowledgements:
>- Electronic Dictionaries Research Groups
>- KanjiVG
>- Tatoeba
>- KanjiCafe
...the bolded line is the group that manages EDICT, JMdict, KANJIDIC, etc., so I expect that means that they use one of them. Most apps tend to use JMdict, for various reasons, so JED is probably the same...but you could always look up 落差 and see which definition it gives. If it's the stupid one, then it's EDICT
Yup! That's exactly the deck I'm using. I changed it a bit, though, so that the front of the card shows the kanji with furigana instead of the kana. You can do that from the desktop version of Anki.
As for the dictionary, I'm using JED on Android.
In the past I used this kanji dictionary JED - Japanese Dictionary but now I don't remember correctly the interface. However from the screenshot in the Google Play it seem it have the feature you request, give a try.
I checked the Google Play page for JED. It seems that this is another free dictionary based on EDRDG's products. It uses the Tatoeba corpus, another poor quality online resource. Other sources mentioned are KanjiVG and KanjiCafe. I don't know how good they are.
Japanese.. I know I suck in it, but I want to understand it enough so I can play "no export for you" games ~
currently I can read kana letters, and (with a dictionary) understand it to very little extent.
I use obenkyo, kanji senpai, JED and memrise.
JED to look up kanji/words I don't know when I'm out.
Memrise to learn and review whenever I have a spare moment.
Kanji Senpai (pay for n5, n4 or n3...) to learn, and review, to write, pronounce and read kanji/vocabulary.
obenkyo to review almost everything kanji, particles, grammar etc
There's also the official GENKI (paid) app.
JED. Offline dictionary. Personally, I prefer JED over Jsho, because, albeit a bit bulky, JED is search-as-you-type and does a good job with its other searching functions. Downside is that it's no longer maintained (I think?) and it shows all inflections of a verb as search results, which can sometimes be annoying as fuck. Both JED and Jsho are based on EDICT though, so they're semantically the same.
Meikyo. Also offline. I recently discovered this one and I gotta say it's awesome. Although the UI is...well, it's bad, but it's still search-as-you-type and it has a J-J dictionary, as well as J-E and E-J. The J-J one is also an officially recognized dictionary, although my teacher said it's not perfect. Still, it does a very good job and I'm happy with it.
All国語辞典. This one is online. This can be your backup plan in case the above two fail. It basically acts as a browser for all the mainstream online dictionaries (Weblio, goo, yahoo, kotobank, etc.). I don't really use it much, but I keep it just in case.
If/when you're at/above N3, I'd suggest setting your system locale (language) to Japanese. This also lets apps which have a JP translation use it, and you end up with a decent number of words you can easily remember, although it may be a bit of a pain at first.
This is all I can think of at the moment.
JED. Nothing better.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umibouzu.jed&hl=en
If you're starting from the beginning of learning Japanese you'll learn Katakana and Hiragana first, then basic sentence structure then basic Kanji. That won't help you read the dialogue, may help to read non Japanese servant names. After you learn Hiragana you can try to learn Kanji by yourself but it'll be difficult. You'll have to learn conjugation too probably 1st or 2nd year.
If you want to speed up your learning you can search online, there's a lot of resources. If you have Android you'll need these two apps down the road - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umibouzu.jed
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.weblio.smpapp.translation
May want to save this too - https://ejje.weblio.jp/
I have been using JED with google handwriting input, and it works wonders.
I don't recall what program he mentioned but here are some I've used or bookmarked after recommendations from various j-vloggers:
[Memrise](www.memrise.com) is a great free resource, both as a web-page or mobile app. There is a wide variety of languages. Still use it myself for Japanese and they even have the Genki and JLPT content.
Rikaikun: For Chrome there is a plugin that helps translate on the fly and good for self-study. There is another app of similar name that is for other devices that this is based on called Rikaichan.
For iOS: Imiwa I can't give personal testimony as I do not have an iOS device but more than a couple bloggers have recommended this as an on-the-fly dictionary.
For Android: JED - Japanese English Dictionary Another on-the-fly dictionary but for Android devices. Lots of features and free.
For more advanced, hands-on teaching and learning: there are a couple websites and apps that offer basically a chat or proofreading function for cementing your conversational usage. If you are interested in those, I will be happy to link them as well.
You can also go for some semi-educational / day-in-life channels on youtube which I would also be happy to link if that interests you.